Visit to Highland Aviation Museum and Morayvia

Thanks for your very positive comments guys, just to make a minor correction, the TSR part is the RE-heat jet pipe module, it is displayed with an Olympus 101 engine actually from a Vulcan Mk.1. The Olympus was used on the TSR so they work as an exhibit.
Please keep looking at our Website and various news items I will put out for updates on other exhibits.

Its great to see developments happening up there! The national museum really needs to grasp the nettle and do more to cover Scottish aviation .
There are glaring gaps which need to be filled .

Originally posted by Scotavia
No details on the Dragonfly so far.

Thanks, Scotavia. It’s good to see a bit of expansion happening. What with Morayvia’s new acquisitions; the Hawk Major at Montrose; the Loch Doon Spitfire at Dumfries and the DH Dragon based at Cumbernauld, it’s an interesting time for the historic scene in Scotland at present 🙂

Originally posted by David Burke
I hope they can develop a collecting policy that reflects the rich aviation heritage of the area and enables them to push for a hanger.

Yes indeed, David (though still nice to leave room for an occasional rarity like the An-2). It would be really good to see the exhibits at both Morayvia and Highland under cover.

[ATTACH=CONFIG]254881[/ATTACH] Very informative volunteer guides with many stories to share.
[ATTACH=CONFIG]254882[/ATTACH] Unusual exhibits , this is the crew room re created showing where the RAF Lossiemouth SAR stayed on stand by, in the next room is the entire operations and eng room. Makes a change to see fairly recent locations preserved with everything as it was especially as the Sea King is just outside.
David the museum is not on the Kinloss base but instead in a former school which served Southside married quarters.And the collection does have much of local interest with more to come.

I hope they can develop a collecting policy that reflects the rich aviation heritage of the area and enables them to push for a hanger.

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[ATTACH=CONFIG]254878[/ATTACH] Herald ,Sea King and the superbly restored AN2.

Originally posted by Scotavia
Morayvia has just announced that a former lossiemouth based Dragonfly heli will be joining the collection.

That’s great news! Do you know where it’s coming from, Scotavia?

Blimey MM, id never noticed that arrangement with the control yokes before. The Valiants cockpit is a lot more quirky and different to what I had originally imagined it to be like – but I like that!

Rob

Morayvia has just announced that a former lossiemouth based Dragonfly heli will be joining the collection.

Originally posted by Wyvernfan
That’s certainly a very distinctive throttle quadrant in the Valiant. Would love to find one of those!

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Also very distinctive was the Control Yoke pitch (fore and aft/elevator) mechanism design, you can see clearly how the yokes slide fore and aft on the square section tubes which are located on the outboard sides of the cockpit –

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A few more of the Valiant. It was quite a vertical climb and squeeze into the pilot’s seat!

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Over at Morayvia it was more of a clamber up the steep gradient of the An-2!

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On the western edge of the former RAF Kinloss and just viewable from the road to Findhorn is Nimrod XV244 –

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That’s certainly a very distinctive throttle quadrant in the Valiant. Would love to find one of those!

Rob